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In my previous post, I wrote about the new Japanese collation for utf8mb4 introduced in MySQL 8.0.1! This collation (utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs) implements accent / case sensitivity for Japanese as defined by CLDR 30.

Today, I am writing about our new utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs_ks collation which includes support for kana sensitivity.…

In a world moving towards Unicode and UTF-8, a lot of applications still use some one-byte character set. And since one-byte characters usually accepts any byte in the range 0x00-0xFF it often works well to store and retrieve any data in such character strings, e.g.…

Anybody who has run the MySQL MTR test suite must have seen a statement like “x tests were skipped, y by the test itself. ” at the end of test runs. Why are some tests being skipped? Are the skipped tests affecting test coverage?…

Sharing keys, passphrases with applications is problematic, especially with regard to encrypting data. Too often applications are developed where “the keys are left in the door” or at best “under the mat” – hard coded, in a clear text property file… exposed and vulnerable. …

CTEs and Recursive CTEs appeared in MySQL 8.0; first in a Labs release and now in the official release 8.0.1. Several blogs have been published: here, here and here ; my colleague Øystein also wrote about how using a CTE made one DBT3 query run twice faster.…